Notes for KWLUG March 2016: DVD Creation and KDEnlive

Raul Suarez: Creating a Photo DVD

  • Raul is using FreeMind to organize his presentation, as usual
  • goals
    • open source
    • easy to teach
    • burn photos and videos to DVD
  • did the work over a weekend
  • video came on an SD card in MTS format
  • plan to spend time curating and making the photo orientation consistent
  • options considered
  • options chosen
  • Raul found these were both straight forward and quickly did what he wanted
    • he did not need any tutorials for either tool
  • there were 3 different events recorded and he wanted chapter/section for easy navigation
  • it was easy to import some photos to play with, and display pretty easily
  • background music can be added as well, but this does not play in preview mode
    • using a long piece of music for the menu actually generates a video
    • choosing a short piece of music will make this smaller and faster
  • doing the VOB generation is in "go and have dinner" time range
  • by generating an ISO image so that his father could download and burn avoiding puttig physical media into the postal service
  • creating the ISO can be another "go and have dinner" wait
  • mount the ISO to preview
    • Bob mentioned that VLC might also have an option for playing ISO's directly
  • Raul's final product for 2 hours was ~40% of the DVD, using SD video

Bob Jonkman: Video Editing with KDEnlive

  • Bob is going to try to use video that he recorded from Raul's presentation for the demo
  • Cinelara is a more capable than KDEnlive, but also more complicated
  • his install tends to crash on transitions so he will avoid them
  • using Saw Square Noise music for the sound track, which is licensed CC BY 3.0
  • Bob started this while making a nice video of his GNU social presentation
  • would like the razor tool to disable itself after use, as he usual want to do one cut at a time
  • the edits are stored in XML and the source videos are not changed
  • can separate the video & audio good for things like combining and cutting between multiple cameras
  • 3 - 4 times as long as the actual video to generate the whole video
  • Bob has not gotten into the back-end details
  • can also do a slideshow clip option
  • can normalize audio
  • lots of fancy 3d options
  • through this project Bob has gained more appreciation of how hard video/film editing actually is